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4kodR TIL that the movie "Never Been Kissed" is based on a true story where a 26-year old reporter went undercover in a San Francisco high school as a student.
ANPlB TIL Sacheen Littlefeather, the "Native American" woman who accepted the 1973 Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando (for his performance in The Godfather) while he boycotted the ceremony to protest the treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood, was actually a "pretendian" posing as a Native American.
ep4w4 TIL that Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in Space, was so inspired by Nichelle Nichols' portrayal of Lieutenant Uhura on Stark Trek that she began every shift of her 1992 Shuttle mission by radioing "Hailing Frequencies Open" as a tribute to the actress and her character.